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Century Quotes by Lewis Thomas
- Animals, even plants, lie to each other all the time, and we could restrict the research to them, putting off the real truth about ourselves…
- The greatest achievements in the science of this [twentieth] century are themselves the sources of more puzzlement than human beings have ever experienced. Indeed, it…
- If we have learned anything at all in this century, it is that all new technologies will be put to use, sooner or later, for…
- I do not agree with this century's fashion of running down the human species as a failed try, a doomed sport. At our worst, we…
- We habitually engage in meddling with nature. Until this century most of this meddling was good. Witness the preservation of the European countryside. But since…
- Well, biology today as I see it has an amiable look - quite different from the 19th-century view that the whole arrangement of nature is…
- The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human ignorance
- We do not understand much of anything, from... the "big bang" , all the way down to the particles in the atoms of a bacterial…
- The only solid piece of scientific truth about which I feel totally confident is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature... It is this sudden…
More Century Quotes
- For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. — Karen Armstrong
- If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life. — Karen Armstrong
- I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did. — Neil Armstrong
- John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only… — Isaac Asimov
- When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched… — Chinua Achebe
- When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day. — Chinua Achebe
- Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form. — Margaret Atwood
- You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma… — Margaret Atwood
- It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take… — Emilie Autumn
- The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus… — Lord Acton
- As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs… — Cleveland Abbe
- Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. — Russell Baker